Regardless of the news-delivery platform, I've built my career on the strength of fact-based journalism. I dig for data and documents. I look for examples and trends. I try to help my audience understand the world around them.

For more than 18 years, I did that for The Courier-Journal, the largest news organization in Kentucky.

In May, I joined the staff of InsideClimate News, a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan Pulitzer Prize winning news organization. For ICN, I cover the U.S. Southeast, as part of ICN's National Environment Reporting Network.